HBO Original Drama Series ‘TASK’ Confirms September Premiere, Trailer Released

HBO is known for its original programming. And while the service has been surpassed by Netflix in terms of numbers, many will claim that HBO’s programming has more quality than Netflix’s in general, and the titles that HBO produced in the past are good evidence for that claim.

Of course, the company is continuing to produce more high-quality original content and we can confirm that HBO has revealed more information about an upcoming original project.

Namely, the crime drama TASK will be premiering later this year and HBO has released the first official trailer, as well as some important information about the series.

Before we continue, here is the trailer:

The original series is created by Brad Ingelsby (“Mare of Easttown”), and HBO has confirmed that it will debut on the streaming service in September (the date has not been specified yet). The season will consist of seven episodes which will be released on a weekly basis.

The series will star Mark Ruffalo, Tom Pelphrey, Emilia Jones, Jamie McShane, Sam Keeley, Thuso Mbedu, Fabien Frankel, Alison Oliver, Raúl Castillo, Silvia Dionicio, Phoebe Fox, and Martha Plimpton.

The series will be produced by Brad Ingelsby, who is also the writer and showrunner, directors Jeremiah Zagar and Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Mark Roybal, and Paul Lee for wiip, Mark Ruffalo, David Crockett, and Ron Schmidt. Co-executive producers on the projects are Nicole Jordan-Webber and Jeremy Yaches for Public Record.  

The story will be set in Philadelphia and will follow Mark Ruffalo’s FBI agent who assembles a special task force to stop a “string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man.”

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